Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-01-06

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81. Strike of Cohoes spinners ended. About
1900 persons affected.
APRIL.
l. The strike on the Gould roads has been
resumed on account of the refusal of the COM
pany to reinstate all the strikers.
3. "Bloody Saturday" at Fort Worth,
Texas. Strikers resist the movement Of
trains, firing volley Of Winchester rifles into
aposse of deputy sheriffs, killing one and
mortally wounding two others. The officers
replied with revolvers ling one striker.
s. Mr. Powderly formally recalls his order
to the Missouri Pacific strikers to resume
work
o. Deputy sheriffs in East st. Louis fire
into a crowd, killing seven persons, only one
of whom was a striker.
A. Powderly makes an appeal to Gould for
the settlement of the southwestern strike
Gould replies, justifying his action and re-
fusing to grant the request of the knights for
arbitration.
10. A general tie up ordered on the New
York City Third Avenue Street railway.
10. Martin Irons, the header in the great
southwestern strike is with three others, in
dicted by the grand grand jury at St Louis,
for tampering with telegraph wires.
IS. Widow Landgraff boycotted in New
York city for employing non-union bakers.
10. The Third avenue street car strikers,
New York city, wreck a car and have q
short but savage fight with the police.
10. The great tie up Of the New York city
street railroads is off, with the exception of
the Third avenue line.
20. Trains are running without molestation
on the Gould roads, although the strikers
still profess TO be confident of ultimate sue
cess
90 The house committee at Washington
begins its investigation of the strike ON the
Gould roads. 1t was continued for some
time
%. ugar house employees at Williamsburg,
n. Y, on strike for an increase of wages.
&C. Thirty-five members Of the New York
Tailors' union indicted by the grand jury for
boycotting.
a. The striking operatives Of the Missouri
Car company have resumed work. The Bal
timore street car strike has also come to an
end.
q. The Third avenue street car strikers,
New York city, put on free coaches for the
accommodation of persons who would other
wise be compelled to ride in the cars.
80. Chairman O'Donnell, Secretary Best,
and Graham, Hughes and Downing, of the
Empire Protective association, indicted by
the grand jury at New York for ordering the
tie up of the Third avenue cars.
MAY.
/. Chicago trades unions demand uniform
working day Of eight hours, without reduc-
ton of wages. The same demands are made
in many other cities
/. Forty thousand men in Chicago go on
strike for eight hours. Strikes for similar
cause are general all over the country.
4. An attempt by the Chicago police to dis
persc a meeting of Anarchists was followed
by a riot in which dynamite bomb was
thrown by the Anarchists among the police,
killing six and wounding sixty-one.
8. Rioters fired upon and several killed by
the state militia at Milwaukee, Wis.
S. More shooting occurred at Chicago be-
tween the police and Anarchists, and leading
rioters were arrested.
6. Milwaukee rioters indicted.
o. The pianomakers of New York have
abandoned their demand for reduction to
eight hours day.
TO- Big strike at Chicago ended.
10. About 1900 girls, employees Of the
Troy, ~ Y, collar and cuff factories, locked
out by the manufacturers on account of the
strike of the laundry girls at George p Ide g.
Co. 8 establishment.
"a. Eight thousand tailors locked out by
the Boss Tailors' union, New York city.
JUNE.
.. John Most, convicted of melting to riot,
was sentenced to Imprisonment at hard labor
for one year and to pay a fine of $500 at New
York.
3. The convention of Knights of Labor, at
Cleveland, closed. The differences with the
trades unions were not satisfactorily adjusted
a. Female members of the families of the
striking Chicago railroad men stop trains by
standing upon the tracks.
s. Fourteen thousand horse car men, of
New York, Brooklyn and Long Island City,
quit work.
@. The Empire Protective association gives
up the fight against the Third Avenue road.
IL. AT the meeting of the Brotherhood of
Telegraphers, at Kansas City, it was decided
to JOIN the Knights of Labor.
%. The Lake Shore switcbmen at Chicago,
out on strike, became very demonstrative;
train of cars thrown Off the track.
JULY.
81. Union employees of fourteen New York
cigar factories locked out.
8. The men who distributed boycott circu-
lars referring TO the Widow LandgrafFs
bakery were convicted at New York, before
Judge Barrett, and sentenced to terms of inn
prisonment Of from ten to thirty days.
25 The National Cigarmakers union with
drew from the Knights of Labor.
AUGUST.
49, The cigarmakers of New York, who
had been on strike for some time, determined
to resume work.
90 Tho eight Chicago Anarchists who were
on trial for the Haymarket riot and bomb
throwing were convicted. Spies, Schwab,
Fielden, Parsons, Fischer, Engel and Lingg
were sentenced TO death. Neebe got fifteen
years in prison
49, Broadway surface road tied up. The
tie up was of short duration.
SEPTEMBER.
4. Three hundred and thirty plumbers
locked out in New York city because of
difference between them and the bosses over
the apprenticeship rule.
9. Monster parade and demonstration of
trades unionists and their sympathizers in
New York city
IL. One thousand sailors struck at San
Francisco owing to differences with the ship
ping agents.
16 All the laborers and mechanics of
Charleston, S. c., struck for an increase of
wages, which was denied. The men there
upon resumed work.
25. Four hundred and fifty brownstone
rubbers struck in New York city against the
employment of q non-union man.
OCTOBER
4. Armour's beef men were ordered to quit
work
2. Eight thousand pork packers Of Chicago
struck for eight hours
2. The general assembly of the Knights of
Labor organized at Richmond and admitted
the Home club.
10. The morocco workers of Wilmington,
who have been out on strike for seven months,
have returned to work
II. Lucy Parsons wife Of one of the con-
demned Chicago Anarchists, began a series
Of addresses in New York and vicinity in be-
half Of her husband and his colleagues.
IS. Tee great strike of the Chicago packing
house workmen is at an end the men having
agreed to return to work on the ten hour plan.
20. National assembly of the Knights of
Labor, at Richmond, Va, was adjourned sine
die. Grand Master Workman Powderly's
salary was increased to 5000 from 81 1900.
Other salaries raised accordingly.
%. The convention of the National Brother
hood Of Engineers, at New York, unani-
mously reelected p, NJ. Arthur, of Cleveland,
grand chief engineer.